Re: Testing has broken xconfig and menuconfig -SOLVED
On 05 Aug 2002, Anthony Campbell wrote:
> Since doing a large update from testing, I find I can no longer get
> "make xconfig" or "make menuconfig" to work when compiling the kernel
> (2.4.18 and 2.4.19). This is on my laptop; it still works on my desktop.
>
> With "make menuconfig" it runs through the process but no menu appears.
> With "make xconfig" it fails with a message about not having permission
> to run scripts/tkparse. This happens even if I do it as root.
>
> It all used to work before the upgrade, so something has been broken,
> but what?
>
> Is there any way to get back to stable at this stage?
>
> AC
OK, red-face time. The problem was that I'd moved the kernel to a new
partition which was set read-only. Stupid mistake.
AC
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